[Mageia-dev] Need mentor(s) to become a Mageia packager

Fri Jul 22 07:43:27 CEST 2011

On 07/22/2011 01:46 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 16:14 -0400, Vincent a écrit :
+>> Hi All,
+>>
+>> I am still trying to pack ZoneMinder for Cauldron.
+>> Now rpms are generated and rpmlint is not complaining, but I am still
+>> sure, it's not OK :) , that's why I need help.
+>> Attached is the spec file, if somebody could have a look.
+>>
+>> Here are my questions:
+>> - where should go the installed files? (Zoneminder provides perl
+>> modules, the site itself, CGI services , doc and conf).
+> conf ->  /etc/ . I would try to see how does others distribution, to have
+> at least a similar path to ease the work of people changing distribution
+>
+> site ->  /var/www/zoneminder. Outside of the webroot, so people can
+> modify it with apache configuration
+>
+> apache configuration ->  /etc/httpd/conf.d/webapps.d/ , iirc
+>
+> perl module ->  like the other ( maybe jq can tell us the details )
+>
+> cgi ->  I think there is something in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, not sure. I guess
+> checking other cgi would help.
+I don't have a /usr/lib/cgi-bi, but I have a /var/www/cgi-bin. Can I put 
+them into /var/www/cgi-bin/Zonedaemon ?
+> doc ->  /usr/sharedoc, marked as such with %doc
+>
+>> - some files have no path's variable:
+>> /usr/share/man/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.xz
+>> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
+>> ...
+>> Any idea, what it should be?
+> I do not understand the question :/
+I don't know how to specify another path for those entries:
+
+/usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
+
+In makefile I get the following:
+INST_MAN3DIR = blib/man3
+
+How to change this blib path not to point to /usr/local/... ?
+
+
+>> - what should be the permissions for the site under the apache server?
+> that depend on what does the site. There is basically some people that
+> say "this should be 127.0.0.1 by default", and those that say "if people
+> installed it, they want to use it on a network and are able to configure
+> apache properly, so it should be opened"
+>
+>> - should the %install section creates the database table/permissions
+>> for ZoneMinder? If so, is there any example how to achieve this?
+> Unfortunately, no. A server can be password protected, on another
+> computer, or using a specific database name.
+>
+> I always wanted to have a proper framework for that ( like saying "this
+> is the sql file" and let some helper script take care of the rest, based
+> on configuration or offering a easy to use tools to create and install
+> database after installation  ), but never wrote anything :)
+>
+>> - should the %install section creates the service launcher scripts? If
+>> so, is there any example how to achieve this?
+> Yes. It was not migrated yet ( or maybe it was ), but this should be a
+> good start :
+> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts
+Thanks for your help!
+
+Vincent
+